Crooked in Canada

History was made in the U.S. less than 48 hours ago, and whether ‘White America’ accepts the results of the U.S. Presidential Election or not (I suspect there will be more than a couple who will be upset by this decision) an African-American will be handed the keys to the White House in January 2009. Martin Luther King Jr. would be a very proud man if he were alive today.

Whether Obama is a good thing for America or not remains to be seen, but my betting money is on the assumption that America for at least the next couple of years are going to have to live through some hard, perhaps even regrettable times, and at the end of the next four year presidential cycle there will be many regrets for both the Democratic National Congress and the Americans who put Barack Obama in office. And don’t even get me started on assassination plots.

In Barack Obama Americans have a president who for all intents and purposes for this blog article has radical leanings and tendencies. His associations with the likes of Weather Underground domestic terrorist and mentor to Obama William Ayers are a testament to that. If it wasn’t for William Ayers and his equally radical wife befriending Obama and then throwing him a coming out party so to speak, the road to the White House for Barack Hussein Obama may have never been paved. Of course Obama is beholding to them now and it will be interesting to know what Ayer’s and his wife expect in return.

Then there his over the top church minister who by anyone church-goer’s standards doesn’t deserve to be in the pulpit from which he served God, what with he fire-brand kind of sermons that not only demonized White America but motivated the anti-white establishment. Nobody, not even Obama himself can say that that isn’t why Reverend Jeremiah Wright took to his higher calling in the first place. And for Obama to sit in his church for 20 years…really now.

But Obama’s failings aren’t what today’s blog article is about. It is about what Americans can expect for the next four years, the only four years I think Obama will be in the White House. I don’t believe, at least at the moment, that Obama will be anything more than a one-trick pony, that his first presidential mandate will be his last presidential mandate, if only because he will be a puppet-president whose strings will be pulled by those more experienced senior Democrats who deliberately went out their way to groom the rookie senator to be their democratic nominee for the 2008 presidential election the moment he won he was elected senator for the first time. They created him, and without him he would have never been able to make history on November 4. He owes them, and those Democrats that did make him the man he has become, the President of the United States of America, are going to collect one way or the other when their time of need arrives. Obama can count on that.

Then there’s the “Oprah Factor”, without it I have no doubt in my mind that Obama would have lost the election. It was Oprah Winfrey, seeing that a black man from the same hometown as hers was vying to become the democratic presidential candidate, who used her television show to announce that she was jumping on Obama’s bandwagon. Does anybody think that Oprah wasn’t motivated by the colour of Obama’s skin, that for a woman who avoided becoming politically involved for decades, then seeing an opportunity to help put an African-American in the White House despite his lack of political experience, didn’t jump at the chance to endorse that person solely based on the colour of his skin. As far as Crooked in Canada is concerned when it comes to Oprah the sole purpose of her endorsement was to rally the troops so to speak, and perhaps collect on a favour from Obama for her very public endorsement of him on her daytime talk show. I hear there’s talk of an ambassadorship for Oprah in the UK. Think she applied for the job as a condition for endorsing Obama, I do, and I bet Obama went to great lengths to assure Oprah that if she endorsed him in a way only a African-American presidential candidate could be endorsed, he would see what he could do about getting her the aforementioned ambassadorship.

Nevertheless what’s done is done, and now Americans are moving into very unfamiliar territory, the kind of territory where racism will rise to levels not seen for many years in the U.S. Then of course there is the expected rise in taxes for middle income earners so that Obama can spread the wealth. Add those two things to the economical pressures, the healthcare issues, and the now even greater threat of home grown terrorism from extreme radicals in the U.S. who have been relatively silent until now, and well Americans have a bigger problem than I think they are expecting.

Of course I could be all wrong about the election of Barack Obama as the next U.S. leader, but at the end of the day it isn’t a stretch to believe that I could be right, though I hope for America’s sake I am wrong.